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Moderated conference on impact assessment of agricultural research: May 2014

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I am Maria Carolina De la Fuente. I am M.Sc Agricultural Economics and agronomist. Three years ago, I was introduced to impact assessment through my Master's thesis in Agricultural Economics. I currently serve as the responsible person for impact assessment at the Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA), Chile.



My interest in being part of this conference arises because of the different types of evaluation methodologies that I have met through my work, since I have come to understand that the application of different methods of impact assessment depends on the area you want to cover. For example, when doing my Master's thesis I had to create a baseline to further evaluate the impact of a government of my country, where the sustainable production of native forests is promoted in small forest owners driven law. For the construction of the baseline, it should be collected information of counterfactual or control groups and  beneficiaries groups to determine, in the future, the impact of this intervention. The “ease” (because it never is easy) to generate counterfactual in implementing public policy is mainly because it focuses on a particular geographical area or zone, which can generate some “control” without spillovers effects. 



However, knowing how to face the impact assessments in agricultural research, I know about the existence of other methodologies [economic surplus, net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), benefit/cost (B/C)] which allow to estimate the economic impact of an intervention in order to provide robust information about the profitability of the research investment. However, these methods do not provide a control group, but through the attribution and adoption rate they estimate impacts generated by research in the target population. I have concluded that these methods work in this way because of the difficulty in finding a control group without “spillover effects” or “pure” because of the wide availability of research results (technologies), Am I right?



María Carolina De la Fuente G.

M.Sc. Agricultural Economics

Person in charge area impact assessment 

Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) 

Fidel Oteiza 1956, piso 12, 

Santiago de Chile 

Chile 

http://www.inia.cl/ 

Tel:+56(02) 23486108

e-mail: mcdelafu (at) gmail.com ; carolina.delafuente (at) inia.cl



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